Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/02/01/13:04:02
From: "Tom St Denis" <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
> In article <3A7876BC DOT 2060603 AT operamail DOT com>,
> Sahab Yazdani <sahaby AT operamail DOT com> wrote:
> > okay, I'm wondering, how did the original Quake manage to make
> > networking under DOS work??? i know it opened up some kind of portal
> > into Windows and then used that as its transport, but HOW???? anybody
> > know, care to tell the rest of us????
>
> No they didn't.
>
> Only winquake supports TCP/IP games.
>
> Tom
>
DOSQuake can do TCP/IP when running under windows with help from a driver.
The driver is a Win32 app, which intercepts messages from DOSQuake and
translates them to Windows through Winsock (I think, I haven't seen the
source code in detail).
Best regards,
Norberto
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